Draper Manuscripts: Thomas Sumter Papers
1763-1885
- Sumter, Thomas, 1734-1832
Draper Mss VV
4.6 c.f. (24 volumes)
Wisconsin Historical Society
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Papers of and about Thomas Sumter, a South Carolina merchant, military officer, and Congressional representative and senator; about the men who served under his command during the American Revolution; and their British and Loyalist opponents. Most of the volumes contain the notes Draper made on his 1871 trip to the South. The notes document the soldiers, their families, events of the period, anecdotes, and personal reminiscences from descendants. Included are notes, correspondence, newspaper and periodical articles, pension statements, interviews, and plans and negotiations with the Cherokee, Chickasaw, and Choctaw Indians.
This collection and an unpublished version of its calendar are also available as a microfilm publication.
Forms part of the Lyman Copeland Draper Manuscripts. The Draper Manuscripts consist of fifty collections, sometimes referred to as fifty “series,” under the one overarching title. See the Draper Manuscripts Overview, and the Guide to the Draper Manuscripts by Josephine Harper (Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1983) and a published Calendar of the Thomas Sumter Papers of the Draper Collection of Manuscripts (Utica, Ky: McDowell Publications, 1986) for further information.
English
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